[HN Gopher] Olympic medalists in art competitions
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       Olympic medalists in art competitions
        
       Author : lordylord
       Score  : 57 points
       Date   : 2023-01-17 09:03 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
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       | Xophmeister wrote:
       | All I can imagine is a Pythonesque sketch of early-20th Century
       | artists sitting at easels -- maybe stretching their canvases --
       | in a sports field, waiting expectantly for the starter pistol. An
       | anticipatory quiet descends over the stadium. Paint! A frantic
       | mixing of paint and blur of brush stokes, as the artists get
       | underway. The crowd goes wild as the Dutch team get down their
       | first layers of colour. Scenes of panic as the Americans trip and
       | their easels tumble to the ground; paint and turpentine flowing
       | over the track. The French Impressionists, who stalled out of the
       | gate mixing Absinthe, make a sudden surge as their choices of
       | colour and shape materialise on the canvas. It's all to play for
       | when, all of a sudden, the surrealist cubists come out of nowhere
       | and win by, what I think, is a nose.
        
         | nerdponx wrote:
         | I could picture and hear this in my head!
        
       | reidjs wrote:
       | It would be pretty cool to bring these competitions back.
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       | I guess it's tough because art cannot be objectively judged.
       | 
       | But neither can figure skating or the high jump, so maybe it's
       | feasible.
        
       | poulpy123 wrote:
       | Mixed Martial Art take another meaning
        
       | terminal_d wrote:
       | You know what would REALLY be a cool competition?
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       | Who can build [X] the fastest, from scratch. Could be a house,
       | clothes, food, etc. Known objective, and meritocratic.
        
       | consp wrote:
       | Of course not once, but twice the organizing competition's
       | architect won the architecture or town planning prize.
        
         | dmurray wrote:
         | To be fair, the competition seems to have massively emphasised
         | the architecture of sporting facilities. 25 of the 28 medals
         | were awarded for what are definitely sporting facilities, and
         | the other 3 - a bullfight arena and two municipal parks - are
         | at least in adjacent areas.
         | 
         | If that's the emphasis of the competition, it's not too
         | surprising that the Olympic stadium or Olympic Village would do
         | well, even with completely objective judges.
        
       | dhoe wrote:
       | Weird to see this here. My grandfather is listed ('36 gold in
       | composition). If I remember his diaries correctly, he seemed to
       | appreciate it mostly because it meant he had beaten the other
       | German composers.
        
         | rvense wrote:
         | My great grandfather competed in painting in '32. He's a piece
         | of family history I think of often in the "what-if" sense, a
         | not-so-remarkable painter, born the year after Hitler.
        
           | boppo1 wrote:
           | Listen, there's lots of us not-so-remarkable painters. The
           | correlation with genocide is prretty low.
        
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